The exceptions on #8046 are the "286" badge and perhaps the wheels. There is also a small tray below the radio controls that matches the interior colors, and an ignition lock-out security system. The lower rear 1/4 panels are black rather than red. Does the AutoZone battery count against me ;-)

Mine is stock except for the 94 Bonneville SSEi Delco CD radio I installed that looks stock for the 88, and the bone stock looking 3.4 I put in to give the Mera some extra oomph. Shhhhh don't tell anyone. Oh I forgot, I also added the "stock" Darrell Morse strut town brace, and a non stock Optima battery (it was red).

yeah? i see i have issues with pulling out my current Batt. if i should have too....and yes New batteries are ok. they are "wearable parts"engine swaps no, ie the reason you kept the org. in the first place. even suspention upgrades do not count.LaBaron/Corrvette/FERRARI, Brake upgrades? NOPE! dont count.if you still got the rear deck support bar, yes.or did it get swapped out for the DickMan N.W.O.....dont count. 2 slat, of course.Heck, even the Fiero turns on the Mera ft bumper are "Mera" because of the way they are mounted. If Tommy ever comes back hopefully he is one step closer to the full Mera stock plan. i here someone got a set up for christmas. To Ole Saint Paradise for being the good man that he is!Malhalo, Me Bragh

Ho,Ho......Honolulu, HI!! come take me back home!! i was concieved in Honolulu just before that Parents lived in Oakland, CA born in MIsorry the winter blahs....caught up to me....always do. at least in 6 weeks i can "fire it up!" the Mera i mean

we all also, still need to come to a concencess on the "No Cut Reverse lights"as a Mera orderable "option". remember i have quotes here from my P.O. here in the PFF, that like Indy_Resto, i may have not had Back up's on Mera X, too. i feel he may have cut them in or someone, just before him. not sure why, but i got white power back there and this aint no Deloran! hahahaaaa i am on a line of inqury as to an accident My Fiero may have been in. so i have been going after the Fiero SE part of mt car not so much the Mera. i have done that and am confident i have A MERA, just not sure if i have a correct Mera on the correct VIN'ed Fiero. thats where i need the ole Employee's point of view like Rick has Mentioned.

wish My PO would have stayed in contact with me....but i DO understand why....Me Loco

I just took a look at my Mera flyers and I don't see back-up-lights in the cars pictured??

And as for that battery, I have no idea where I would even start to get it out!

i see it as like the "delete" option....am i using the term right? like a SunRoof or the raido.....i dont know i just heard about this delete option on this fiero site....cannot remember where, tho.

i dont mean like an option to "add" them. but "the option" NOT to have them cut in. the only other place i have even heard this statement almost word for word is in that "XILLION" kit/Mera Video on FieroSails....if i remember the site correctly.

if the future owner wants no stinking back up lights maybe the orginal owner can order no stinking lights.you know what i mean mang!?

and speaking of Spanish Infulence.....HEY RICK!!!??? ARE YOU FROZEN SOLID?? aint heard from ya lately. fingers too cramped to type? hope its all good out there for ya. holla' back,yo!!

If you did not know it was not offered in 88 you would swear it came with the car. It even has the two round gray knobs in the same location at the factory EQ casette. It fits perfectly, and matches the correct red of the rest of the gauges. The only mod was to use the delco harness adapter. No wire were cut and it works fine with the factory sub. They are harder to come by than the later model Pontiac CD's but there is no compairson with how it looks in the car. They were offered in 92 to 94 Bonnevilles as I recall. Sometimes they pop up on ebay but they are always more expensive. Later model units with the large volume control tend to have problems with the volume control failing. My older units has been trouble free and plays burned CD's too.

I just took a look at my Mera flyers and I don't see back-up-lights in the cars pictured??

And as for that battery, I have no idea where I would even start to get it out!

Wayne,

The battery is a bear to take out. The 87 Mera owner here relocated his to the trunk are in a marine battery box. I wanted to keep mine in the stock location but, I did not want to do it again, so I purchase an Optima Red Top (with a handle just in case).

I purchased the adapter thru a Delco supplier. I can't remeber the name, but the harness is designed to adapt the newer Delco radio to the older GM audio harness. It just plugs together. I will email you a picture of the radio tomorrow.

we all also, still need to come to a concencess on the "No Cut Reverse lights"as a Mera orderable "option". remember i have quotes here from my P.O. here in the PFF, that like Indy_Resto, i may have not had Back up's on Mera X, too. i feel he may have cut them in or someone, just before him. not sure why, but i got white power back there and this aint no Deloran! hahahaaaa i am on a line of inqury as to an accident My Fiero may have been in. so i have been going after the Fiero SE part of mt car not so much the Mera. i have done that and am confident i have A MERA, just not sure if i have a correct Mera on the correct VIN'ed Fiero. thats where i need the ole Employee's point of view like Rick has Mentioned.

wish My PO would have stayed in contact with me....but i DO understand why....Me Loco

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The way it was explained to me is that early on in production the factory Ferrari lenses were used in the rear of the cars. As a cost reduction measure, C&C sought out some private manufacture to make a lens copy of those same lenses. Thst company was unable to cut in the clear area in the stop red lense due to a copyright infringment or a patent infringment from the F people. The plain red lense was a result and the clear Ford reverse lens was used for the back up lights.dMost of us are aware of the cost of the Ferrari lenses so as can see the sense in the measures taken. I cannot recall who told me this story nor can I validate it but it does make perfect sense.I have a sales brocure for the Mera and the pictured car has not got the Ford reverse lights (printed in 87).

So far as if you have a real Mera or not, have your supplied Rodney with your VIN number? He is supposed to have the list of Meras by VIN number that was produced.

Yeah, I'd like to know that, too. I'm sure we all understand Dan has a broader objective--he's searching for his heritage, and I sympathize. OTOH, I don't understand why Rodney is not more forthcoming with the info in his registry

The way it was explained to me is that early on in production the factory Ferrari lenses were used in the rear of the cars. As a cost reduction measure, C&C sought out some private manufacture to make a lens copy of those same lenses. Thst company was unable to cut in the clear area in the stop red lense due to a copyright infringment or a patent infringment from the F people. The plain red lense was a result and the clear Ford reverse lens was used for the back up lights.dMost of us are aware of the cost of the Ferrari lenses so as can see the sense in the measures taken. I cannot recall who told me this story nor can I validate it but it does make perfect sense.I have a sales brocure for the Mera and the pictured car has not got the Ford reverse lights (printed in 87).

So far as if you have a real Mera or not, have your supplied Rodney with your VIN number? He is supposed to have the list of Meras by VIN number that was produced.

OK where to start.....reverse lights.

first a quote from MY previous owner....

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Originally posted by Mera-NSX:

Thats great, I'll be keeping an eye out for your post with what you find out. Remember, he refused to give the vin #( (he was very firm about that for some reason?) but if you are there I suppose you should be able to find a way to get it. I know from the pictures on Craigslist the car does have the real 308 tailight configuration, I am familiar with it because my 87 has it that way. The one thing relating to that which makes absolutely no sense, is that he pointed out to me that there was "bodywork" done to the rear, as he explained why it did not have the Ford backup lights. That would make sense if someone were explaing how their 1988 Mera got those taillights, but actually seems to go against the thought that this would be the one & only 1986...as in that case, and I'm sure Rodney would agree, there would not be any bodywork to the taillight area, as they never would have had the Ford backup lights in the first place.

So when you go there to see the car, try to get a look in behind the taillight area/see if it looks like there was any alteration as far as the taillights go.

I got the feeling talking to the seller, that someone else familiar w/the Mera called him about this car before I did, because although he came across as not having much knowledge about the Mera, he seemed to mention certain things (such as the taillights), but still without any real certainty. So I believe someone already put some of those questions to him before I did.

As I mentioned, I dont see a problem with someone referencing the Mera for comparison sake, when they are talking about their 308 replica, as long as if they do not have a Mera they dont claim theirs is one. But when someone is using the term as a basis for why they are asking what they are for the car, and are in fact claiming it to be one, then it better in fact be legit or I consider that to be fraudulent & misrepresentation, and unfair to a potential buyer.

OK he makes a statement that his "87" has the 308 configuration and we all know thats my car. ask Holmes. hes met him. hey Richard if you see Heath again see if he will call me. thanks!well this makes me feel like he cut the reverse lights in himself ,if he means that the "308 configuration" on his "87" is without reverse lights but with all Carellos. follow?

but if he means he has just the ambers and the reds Carrello, and also has the reverse like a Mera should. well he must have taken off the Carello Yellows because i have Mera1 yellows, OEM Mera...which he had 2 more of besides between that and other 1986 Mera Proto accessories i have like the rear engine grill points, the Manual Mirror and one way directional switch(unconfirmed), the 2 slat up front, the flat back-black louverd sails, technically My Red Carello would be more like the proto and the SE model type similarity to me is the best. hopefully only 2 ever made thats 7 1/2 commonalitys that Mera X and the 86 proto have with each other....thats quite alot. for 'my' kit car anyway.sooo..... this quote is weird.

now Indy shows with a Rodney comfirmed "uncut" Mera. now if there is no body work evident on Indys Mera it just dont make sence.

unless Meras left the factory uncut.

so if i have some body work to do to "restore" my Mera back to OEM....minus my OEM emblems....i think Indy, the Proto and maybe me...are the most stock Meras so far. now as mentioned i have focused on the 1987 Meras. #1 because i have one and as Richard mentioned for my heritage, well put Holmes

but #2 i felt when i first got here that a 1988 Mera owner would want to do this for himself, and after i got here with the 1987's, for the rest of the 88 guys here. i also dreamed of working with Rodney and this '88 Mera owner to breath new energy into the registery. hell we would've had a Reunion last year if my "Plan" was enacted. but, alas....my Hyper-Activity always pushes the cute girls away too....so i have done what i came here to do. I HAVE A MERA!! done.

i have since been looking at and for the 1988 Meras for what i call "Pontiac MERA...the latter year" *post for context*

hope that makes sence??so as far as My Mera in the registery.....NO, he said he did not have it in there. but he disclaimed to not have all the Numbers, if i remember. that was 2 years ago.

and in the copies of the registery he sent me there are numbers of people and meras, but those are the people he sent register cards to. so i am not sure if he has a "MASTER LIST" seems like he needed a source to mail registery cards to. so i am hopeful that a MasterList exisits.

Dan, bring it down. I have two 87's you can crawl all over.Where in MI are you again? I have a friend in Macoom County I visit from time to time and am overdue for a visit. I was last there for the 25th in the 88.

Dan, bring it down. I have two 87's you can crawl all over.Where in MI are you again? I have a friend in Macoom County I visit from time to time and am overdue for a visit. I was last there for the 25th in the 88.

i carfaxed mine before i bought it.....clean as a whistle. My PO said he bought from MI and the title search reflected this....but thats it only those two entries...this worries me. but the MiSOS has to only keep records for 10 years here in MI so i guess that it is only to show these dates....but other Fiero carfax some go all the way back to the org purchase. that why ythe worry. see the place to find a Mera Stash would be up here in the MI....both good and bad. either i got a Mera salvage survivor from the demise or its a Mera.

carfax disclaims to only report what was givin to them and the state of MI told me what they have, so i went to the PHS people to see what they had....but they said their info would not reflect the Mera conversion...saved $65. when i get Rich again i will do one but till then. What do i do but just mellow out and enjoy.....MERA X!

I... get me sum! in the Kalamazoo/BattleCreek area....i have a big stomping ground.

now if you mean Macomb county thats on the other side if the state. but i see alot of Fiero Events with the FieroClubs out there so i am spending more time out that way, this year.

who wants Lake Mi resort towns with the P.H.A.T. beach action and the resturants with the vino all the time, eh?

first choose a car...bigger than a breadbox (YUGO) but smaller than a MonsterTruck.then drive East to Florida and get MY Mera wheels!!!!

should you choose this mission. it will be paramount to the community and to the World. the World of Mera X, that isyou also get a gold star and a +1 rating. shiney star and a green little bar next to your name.i got the cash....Trip distance: 1352.74 mi Time: 20 hrs 34 about the same time and distance too.....thanks for doing this Mike, you are Swell all kidding aside I am still considering a little FL road trip to snatch them rims......only time and money will tell!!

its funny you should ask.in a thread here on the PFF i have been watching, a guy just posted and he is in TitusVille,FL.sooo if a stranger is a stranger....but some are stranger than most, ME for example, when does a person youhave never met but chatted with become a aquaintance?this is my delima. the Mera Wheels seller i do not know from Adam, but if a guy on the PFF seems cool and has been a member for a while....is that stranger material? dont know how far InterNet trust is extended.

i would trust someone here (PFF), with references and a Paypal account i guess!

now i find a PFF'er in TitusVille, FL. long time member and over 400 posts.....I am on the edge of something just do not know what-Supreme Victory or TotalFail, with jail timeits best to not rip me off when all i got is gascards, adult diapers, a rental car account and TIME!! just so you all know